Why we will love you

Simply because of your passion for Omnichannel retailing and Home Furnishing. If you see yourself in a role where you share and live the the IKEA Culture and Values, then we are looking for you! You are genuinely interested in collaborating across complex stakeholder landscape, develop relationships, and to lead, inspire, and develop coworkers across the organization, and enjoy work in agile, fast changing environments, and to take responsibility and tasks, often of administrative character. You have a passion for continuous learning and development, therefore you see yourself develop with intention to take leadership positions within Global, Country or Market Retail organizations as a next step

- Good ability to understand and connect Strategic, Tactical, Operational topics with Business acumen

- Strong IKEA Leadership and interpersonal skills

- Exceptional ability to communicate verbally, visually, and in writing

- Ability to multitask with care, accuracy, exceed quality standards

- Learning orientation - capable to understand and acquire new knowledge and abilities quickly

- Proven advanced training in business management, strategic communication or equivalent minimum of 7 years of experience within Retail, preferably within IKEA

- Strong project management skills

- Strong documented leadership skills.

- 3-5 years of experience of successfully lead and manage people

- Knowledge of IKEA brand, culture, values and way of working

- Strong communication skills in English (Spoken and Written)

To enjoy your work with us, it is important that you share our core values and ideas. At IKEA you will work in a vibrant culture where your ideas are heard, there is opportunity to learn new skills and the goal always is “to create a better everyday life for the many people”. We offer you the opportunity to further develop your professional knowledge in your daily work, and to work in an environment in which people and a sense of community and affinity are central values.

A day in your life with us

As management assistant, your key responsabilities will be to:

- Be the key right-hand person to the assigned Retail Market Manager, supporting them across a range of initiatives and - organisational-, strategic, tactical and operational tasks, and to ensure preparedness for key meetings and engagements, and drive specific projects and assignments.

- Take an active role as a member of the Retail Markets Management team, steering and supporting the effective and efficient Ingka Retail Management team, including preparation of materials, minutes, and following up decision and pending logs etc.

- Orchestrate and support the Retail Markets on assigned Ingka governance, corporate calendar, Ingka Retail calendar and key business cycles, securing the right content preparation, alignment, minutes, following up decision and pending logs

- Facilitate collaboration and engagement across the Retail Markets community and act as a point of entry for cross Ingka and cross IKEA collaborations

- Contribute to the Ingka Retail Management Assistant team, ensuring smooth administration, support, coordination and collaboration across Ingka Retail.

About this work area

Together, we are creating a better IKEA Retail, one that is securing long term profitable growth, so we can be more affordable, accessible and sustainable. We are bringing IKEA closer to our customers - whenever, wherever and however they want to meet us. We are developing IKEA as a purpose led brand by delivering to our commitments in our People & Planet Positive strategy. We also make IKEA an attractive employer of choice for current and future talents, who want to stay and develop the business and themselves together with us.